Invitations have been accepted by 150 Jewish communal leaders throughout the country to attend a conference at the Standard Club here Sunday under the auspices of the Joint Distribution Committee to consider emergency needs of the Jews in Germany, the refugees in Eastern Europe and plans for 1936, it was announced today.
Felix M. Warburg, honorary chairman, and Paul Baerwald, chairman of the J.D.C., declared in a statement accompanying the announcement that “problems of such grave and tragic importance to Jews throughout the world have arisen so quickly and in so many countries that the J.D.C. has wished to have the counsel of many minds in dealing with these problems.”
The statement continued: “The Chicago Emergency conference will function as a sort of nation-wide council to help and advise the Joint Distribution Committee in formulating its plans in the face of the overwhelming situation with which Jews throughout the world are confronted.”
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